Su-Mei Tse

A chamber where the sole reverberating sound is your own breath; cellos played against an accentuated mountainous green backdrop; conical shells as coated headphones – these are disparate yet interlinked examples of the delicate, lyrical humour that pervades Su-Mei Tse’s (b. 1973, Luxembourg) practice, which spans video, installation and sculpture. A trained classical cellist of Chinese and British descent, Tse weaves a meditative, “visaural” tale empowering the language of music as a primary voice. Investigating associations between places, geographies, cultures, traditions, Tse’s work elicits a cross-stimulation of the senses, where time and its flow are suspended in a gentle state of contemplation.